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Extremely High Rate of Suicide Discovered Among Bariatric Surgery Patients

4/11/2008 - (NaturalNews) Patients who have undergone bariatric surgery appear to commit suicide at five to 10 times the population average, according to a recent study published in the journal Archives of Surgery. Researchers examined data collected from the Pennsylvania...

MOTHERS Act Seeks to Drug Expectant Mothers with Antidepressants to "Treat" Postpartum Depression

3/6/2008 - (NaturalNews) A new law being considered in the U.S. Congress would attempt to prevent postpartum depression in new moms by drugging them with SSRI antidepressant drugs while they're still pregnant. This legislation is being aggressively pushed by pro-pharma...

Chemically-Induced Suicide: 80 Percent of Suicide Victims Took Antidepressant Drugs

2/28/2008 - (NaturalNews) A Swedish writer has accused the National Board of Health and Welfare (NBHW) of covering up evidence suggesting a connection between psychiatric drugs and suicide. Under a recent law, Swedish health-care providers must fill out reports...

Media Blames Heath Ledger, Refuses to Examine Dangers of the Pharmaceuticals Found Beside His Body

1/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) Can you imagine the outcry if Heath Ledger's body was found next to a pile of Chinese herbs? The media outcry would be deafening, and nearly everyone would leap to the conclusion that the herbs must have killed Ledger. But when Ledger's...

Actor Heath Ledger Apparently Killed by FDA-Approved Pharmaceuticals (update 1)

1/23/2008 - (NaturalNews) Actor Heath Ledger has become the latest high-profile fatality caused by prescription and non-prescription pharmaceuticals. He was found dead in his New York City apartment earlier today, and apparently died from the fatal effects of the...

Omaha Shooter Robert Hawkins Had Been "Treated" For ADHD, Depression

12/6/2007 - (NaturalNews) America seems shocked that, yet again, a young male would pick up an assault rifle and murder his fellow citizens, then take his own life. This is what happened last night in Omaha, Nebraska, where the 19-year-old Hawkins killed himself...

Suicide Link to Acne Drug Officially Established

12/3/2007 - (NaturalNews) A clear chemical link has been established between the acne drug Roaccutane and the history of depression and suicide associated with its usage, according to researchers at the University of Bath.  Writing in the journal Experimental...

Prescription drug deaths skyrocket 68 percent over five years as Americans swallow more pills

2/22/2007 - (NaturalNews) Poisoning from prescription drugs has risen to become the second-largest cause of unintentional deaths in the United States, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,...

Cancer diagnosis doubles suicide rate in patients

10/19/2006 - (NaturalNews) Cancer patients run at least double the risk of committing suicide compared to the general population, according to a new study published in the Annals of Oncology. Dr. Wayne Kendal, a radiation oncologist at the Ottawa Hospital Regional...

Children and teens taking antidepressants might be more likely to attempt, complete suicide (press release)

10/5/2006 - Antidepressant medications may be associated with suicide attempts and death in severely depressed children and adolescents but not in adults, according to an article in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The...

Popular acne drug found to cause depression, suicide

9/19/2006 - (NaturalNews) The acne drug Accutane has been implicated in an increase in feelings of depression among adolescent users, and while the link has never been proven, researchers at the University of Bath and the University of Texas in Austin have gathered...

Drug Approval Processes May Have Delayed Safety Warnings for Antidepressants (press release)

9/11/2006 - Drug approval processes may have delayed warnings about the safety of antidepressants, argues a senior doctor in this week’s BMJ. Newswise — Following GlaxoSmithKline’s recent letter to doctors pointing to a sixfold increase in the risk of suicidal...

TeenScreen - Normal Kids Labeled Mentally Ill

8/23/2006 - Despite years of public outcry, based on recommendations by President Bush's New Freedom Commission to screen all school children for mental illness, TeenScreen is now being administered in the nation's public school system and children are being regularly...

Pepper Component Hot Enough to Trigger Suicide in Prostate Cancer Cells (press release)

8/14/2006 - Capsaicin, the stuff that turns up the heat in jalapeńos, not only causes the tongue to burn, it also drives prostate cancer cells to kill themselves, according to studies published in the March 15 issue of Cancer Research. According to a team of...

AOL search data reveals disturbing details about users

8/9/2006 - (NaturalNews) According to a report by CNET news, internet giant AOL recently published the search histories of more than 650,000 of its users, exposing the lives of regular -- and not so regular -- people to public scrutiny. While AOL apologized,...

Antidepressants and Risk of Suicidal Thoughts, Behaviors in Children (press release)

8/9/2006 - An analysis of data from 24 clinical trials suggests that antidepressant medications may be linked to a modest increase in the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors in children, according to an article in the March issue of Archives of General Psychiatry,...

Experts say antidepressant drugs cause suicides instead of preventing them

4/10/2006 - In June 2001, a jury in Wyoming determined that the antidepressant drug Paxil caused a man to kill his wife, daughter and granddaughter before killing himself. The jury awarded the surviving family $8 million in damages, according to American Medical...

Psychiatric Drugs: Chemical Warfare on Humans - interview with Robert Whitaker

8/27/2005 - The following is a Street Spirit interview with Robert Whitaker, author of Mad In America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill. It is reprinted here with permission from the Street Spirit in Oakland, California....

Non-surgical treatment of fibromyalgia - an interview with Dr. Paul Whitcomb

6/14/2005 - Ben:My name is Ben Kage. I'm here with Mike Adams. We're excited about what we've read regarding your treatments for fibromyalgia using chiropractic medicine, and we wondering if you'd be able to enlighten us on a few questions we have for you. Mike:And...

Why we should bar smokers from taxpayer-funded health care coverage

3/6/2005 - Is it time to ban cigarettes yet? In this essay, I'm going to give you three different perspectives on the issue. From one perspective, the public health view that says cigarettes are a deadly product that causes untold pain, suffering and death in the...

Eli Lilly lied about Prozac, hid suicide evidence, charges Harvard psychiatrist

1/6/2005 - Eli Lilly treated the American public "like guinea pigs" says Harvard psychiatrist Martin Teicher. He goes on to explain how Eli Lilly was engaged in widespread scientific fraud in the cherry picking of individuals for drug trial results. Basically,...

Eli Lilly knew Prozac had 1200% higher suicide rate than other antidepressants

1/3/2005 - It's yet another example of the widespread negligent actions committed by Big Pharma in the quest for profits. It's not just Vioxx, Bextra or Celebrex. Now the truth is finally starting to come out on antidepressant drugs like Prozac. And what is the...

Senior FDA officials suppressed initial findings on suicide link to antidepressant drugs

8/22/2004 - A senior epidemiologist at the Food and Drug Administration, whose job it is to assess the safety of medicines, found last year that 22 clinical studies showed children given antidepressants were almost twice as likely to become suicidal as those on...

The FDA finally admits antidepressant drugs cause suicidal tendencies in children

8/22/2004 - The FDA has now finally admitted that children who use antidepressant drugs are 180 percent more likely to have suicidal tendencies than children taking placebos. This is after the agency stalled for months by requesting an independent investigation...

European drug regulatory agency warns doctors about antidepressant drug and suicide risks, but in the U.S., the FDA remains silent

7/28/2004 - The European Union is warning its member nations and their physicians about the increased suicide risk from patients taking a popular anti-depressant drug known as Seroxat. This drug is said to increase the risk of suicide in young adults, and it is...

Syndicated news services lie about antidepressant drugs with blatantly misleading headlines

7/22/2004 - When a major study reveals that antidepressant drugs quadruple a person's risk of committing suicide, and when that study is backed by an analysis of three million patient records covering four SSRIs like Paxil and Prozac, a reasonable person can only...

Antidepressant drugs quadruple risk of suicides, research shows

7/22/2004 - The very first week you start taking antidepressant drugs, your risk of committing suicide quadruples. Antidepressants have long been accused of actually causing suicides and violent behavior, and now research is proving it. It may be news to you and...

Maker of antidepressant drugs faces $250m lawsuit from New York Attorney General: the drugs cause adolescents to commit suicide, says claim

6/4/2004 11:27:24 PM - Antidepressant drug maker GlaxoSmithKline is facing legal charges that its drug (Seroxat) is dangerous and causes adolescents to commit suicide. The charges come from New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer who also claims the company hid...

FDA conceals evidence showing antidepressant drugs cause children to commit suicide

5/28/2004 11:17:24 AM - It has now been revealed that the FDA purposely hid clinical evidence showing that children taking antidepressant drugs were more than twice as likely to attempt suicide than those not taking the drugs. Rather than announce or publish these results...

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